Today’s Lenten reading comes from Thomas Merton’s Theology of Creativity. As I will be on retreat beginning 5:00 tonight until Easter Sunday night, this will be my final Lenten posting. Blessings to all on this holy Triduum:

The creativity of the Christian person must be seen in relation to the creative vocation of the new Adam, the mystical ( Read more... )

On this day in 1968 the world lost perhaps the greatest Catholic author of the 20th century, a spiritual guide who will go down among the great contemplative writers in Catholic history. Thomas Merton died this day, 41 years ago, and 27 years to the day after his entrance into the Trappist monastery, the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemane. Like ( Read more... )

Let my prayer be counted as incense before thee, and the lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice! (Psalms 141:2)

Friends, I am going to take a brief hiatus from the internet. With school winding down, and my application process with the Augustinians intensifying, I want time both to concentrate on those things, but also in a special way to ( Read more... )

My Aunt Lois is a Sister of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM), Sister Rose Lawrence, and throughout my life she has provided me with great spiritual guidance, particularly with the spiritual authors to whom she has introduced me. The greatest of these treasures has been the love of Thomas Merton that I have developed and that I owe entirely to ( Read more... )

Today is Thomas Merton's birthday J In honor I'm posting a piece from one of his journal entries from his birthday in 1960, his 45th. I am going to bold one little sentence, just because of how incredibly eerie it is.

A lovely little icon arrived that Bob Rambusch got for us in Salonika, I believe. He had it cleaned in New York and here it is ( Read more... )

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope that I have that ( Read more... )